Christopher P Loss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher P Loss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher P |
| FAMILY NAME | Loss |
| SIGNATURE | LOSS C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Accreditation Helped the American Public Learn to Trust Higher Education
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century
This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present‐day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four h…
The City of Tomorrow Must Reckon with the Lives and Living Habits of Human Beings”: The Joint Center for Urban Studies Goes to Venezuela, 1957-1969
This essay explores the forgotten history of the founding of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Harvard University and the challenges it faced in putting its multidisciplinary urban studies method to work, in Venezuela, in the early 1960s. The first part “Cambridge, Massachusetts” details the Center’s creation and the mix of personal and professional relationships that shaped its structure and mi…
No Operation in an Academic Ivory Tower”: World War II and the Politics of Social Knowledge
America's sprawling system of colleges and universities has been built on the ruins of war. After the American Revolution the cash-strapped central government sold land grants to raise revenue and build colleges and schools in newly conquered lands. During the Civil War, the federal government built on this earlier precedent when it passed the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant College Act, which created the nation's system of publicly supported land-grant …
The Dissertation Dilemma and the Challenge of American Graduate Education
As challenges to graduate education mount, so too have calls for reevaluating the dissertation. This article argues that the dissertation is a critical institution by which knowledge production is disciplined; however, alternative models of credentialing expertise are warranted. We explore the “dissertation dilemma” by explaining that the modern university's legitimacy hinges on the expert authority that the dissertation confers and the social de…
Leah N. Gordon. From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America
This book examines the role of social scientists in the construction of racial paradigms between the publication of Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy in 1944 and the enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1964) twenty years later. These two events bookend Leah N. Gordon’s story of the troubled rise and triumph of what she labels “racial individualism”—the midcentury liberal belief that white “prejudice and discr…
From Pluralism to Diversity: Reassessing the Political Uses of The Uses of the University
This article traces the pluralist politics at the heart of Clark Kerr's book The Uses of the University to the present-day politics of diversity. Pluralism was the dominant theory of American politics at midcentury, and Kerr was among its most admired spokespersons. First as a labor economist and strike negotiator, then as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and later as president of the University of California system, Kerr rel…
Education, Free Speech, and the Fate of the Public
Women's studies is in a lot of ways—consciousness raising”: The educational origins of identity politics
The second-wave feminist movement crystallized a new politics of personal identity that was fueled by and became inextricably linked to the modern university. On and off campus women organized into groups to press for political and educational rights. Along the way, women discovered that politics and education were both personal and that the achievement of "identity" offered the most direct path to true selfhood and liberation. This conclusion he…
Special issue introduction: Psychology, politics, and public policy
Introduction to the Special Issue on Immigration: Expanding Definitions and Examining New Contexts
Despite being a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with the issue of immigration. Since before the nation's founding, the country's immigration policies and practices have b
The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened to Me in the Army: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II
Journal Article “The Most Wonderful Ting Has Happened to Me in the Army”: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II Get access Christopher P. Loss Christopher P. Loss doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 3, December 2005, Pages 864–891, https://doi.org…
Bureaucratic Tyranny: “The Price of Structure” in the American University
I first encountered Laurence Veysey as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University in the early 1990s. I did not meet Veysey, who had long since left the academy. Nor did I read The Emergence of the American University’, which happened years later in graduate school. Actually, my first contact with Laurence R. Veysey occurred without me knowing it
Party School: Education, Political Ideology, and the Cold War
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Immigration: Expanding Definitions and Examining New Contexts
Despite being a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with the issue of immigration. Since before the nation's founding, the country's immigration policies and practices have b
Bureaucratic Tyranny: “The Price of Structure” in the American University
I first encountered Laurence Veysey as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University in the early 1990s. I did not meet Veysey, who had long since left the academy. Nor did I read The Emergence of the American University’, which happened years later in graduate school. Actually, my first contact with Laurence R. Veysey occurred without me knowing it
The City of Tomorrow Must Reckon with the Lives and Living Habits of Human Beings”: The Joint Center for Urban Studies Goes to Venezuela, 1957-1969
This essay explores the forgotten history of the founding of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Harvard University and the challenges it faced in putting its multidisciplinary urban studies method to work, in Venezuela, in the early 1960s. The first part “Cambridge, Massachusetts” details the Center’s creation and the mix of personal and professional relationships that shaped its structure and mi…
No Operation in an Academic Ivory Tower”: World War II and the Politics of Social Knowledge
America's sprawling system of colleges and universities has been built on the ruins of war. After the American Revolution the cash-strapped central government sold land grants to raise revenue and build colleges and schools in newly conquered lands. During the Civil War, the federal government built on this earlier precedent when it passed the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant College Act, which created the nation's system of publicly supported land-grant …
The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened to Me in the Army: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II
Journal Article “The Most Wonderful Ting Has Happened to Me in the Army”: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II Get access Christopher P. Loss Christopher P. Loss doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 3, December 2005, Pages 864–891, https://doi.org…
Party School: Education, Political Ideology, and the Cold War
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Party School: Education, Political Ideology, and the Cold War
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened to Me in the Army: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II
Journal Article “The Most Wonderful Ting Has Happened to Me in the Army”: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II Get access Christopher P. Loss Christopher P. Loss doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 3, December 2005, Pages 864–891, https://doi.org…
Bureaucratic Tyranny: “The Price of Structure” in the American University
I first encountered Laurence Veysey as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University in the early 1990s. I did not meet Veysey, who had long since left the academy. Nor did I read The Emergence of the American University’, which happened years later in graduate school. Actually, my first contact with Laurence R. Veysey occurred without me knowing it
Introduction to the Special Issue on Immigration: Expanding Definitions and Examining New Contexts
Despite being a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with the issue of immigration. Since before the nation's founding, the country's immigration policies and practices have b
Women's studies is in a lot of ways—consciousness raising”: The educational origins of identity politics
The second-wave feminist movement crystallized a new politics of personal identity that was fueled by and became inextricably linked to the modern university. On and off campus women organized into groups to press for political and educational rights. Along the way, women discovered that politics and education were both personal and that the achievement of "identity" offered the most direct path to true selfhood and liberation. This conclusion he…
Special issue introduction: Psychology, politics, and public policy
From Pluralism to Diversity: Reassessing the Political Uses of The Uses of the University
This article traces the pluralist politics at the heart of Clark Kerr's book The Uses of the University to the present-day politics of diversity. Pluralism was the dominant theory of American politics at midcentury, and Kerr was among its most admired spokespersons. First as a labor economist and strike negotiator, then as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and later as president of the University of California system, Kerr rel…
Education, Free Speech, and the Fate of the Public
The Dissertation Dilemma and the Challenge of American Graduate Education
As challenges to graduate education mount, so too have calls for reevaluating the dissertation. This article argues that the dissertation is a critical institution by which knowledge production is disciplined; however, alternative models of credentialing expertise are warranted. We explore the “dissertation dilemma” by explaining that the modern university's legitimacy hinges on the expert authority that the dissertation confers and the social de…
Leah N. Gordon. From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America
This book examines the role of social scientists in the construction of racial paradigms between the publication of Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy in 1944 and the enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1964) twenty years later. These two events bookend Leah N. Gordon’s story of the troubled rise and triumph of what she labels “racial individualism”—the midcentury liberal belief that white “prejudice and discr…
No Operation in an Academic Ivory Tower”: World War II and the Politics of Social Knowledge
America's sprawling system of colleges and universities has been built on the ruins of war. After the American Revolution the cash-strapped central government sold land grants to raise revenue and build colleges and schools in newly conquered lands. During the Civil War, the federal government built on this earlier precedent when it passed the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant College Act, which created the nation's system of publicly supported land-grant …
The City of Tomorrow Must Reckon with the Lives and Living Habits of Human Beings”: The Joint Center for Urban Studies Goes to Venezuela, 1957-1969
This essay explores the forgotten history of the founding of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Harvard University and the challenges it faced in putting its multidisciplinary urban studies method to work, in Venezuela, in the early 1960s. The first part “Cambridge, Massachusetts” details the Center’s creation and the mix of personal and professional relationships that shaped its structure and mi…
How Accreditation Helped the American Public Learn to Trust Higher Education
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century
This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present‐day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four h…
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